Pirate streaming services and movie piracy sites have seen a huge surge of incoming traffic during the COVID-19 pandemic with most people now having to stay inside due to shelter in place and lockdown orders.
Microsoft warns that malicious actors are taking advantage of this trend trying to infect potential victims with malware delivered via fake movie torrents.
"With lockdown still in place in many parts of the world, attackers are paying attention to the increase in use of pirate streaming services and torrent downloads," the Microsoft Security Intelligence team
said.
"We saw an active coin miner campaign that inserts a malicious VBScript into ZIP files posing as movie downloads."
Fake movies dropping coinminers into memory
The attackers behind this campaign are primarily targeting home users to enterprises from Spain and some South American countries with the end goal of launching a coinminer directly into the compromised devices' memory.
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